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This survey discusses recent developments in the context of spherical designs and minimal energy point configurations on spheres. The recent solution of the long standing problem of the existence of spherical $t$-designs on $\mathbb{S}^d$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter J. Grabner

Statistically studied are the equilibrium characteristics of a subsystem of mobile charges of one sort, taking into account the subsystem of fixed charges of the opposite sign creating a compensating electric background. The distribution of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-07 H. S. Bokun , D. di Caprio

We prove a conjecture of T. Erd\'{e}lyi and E.B. Saff, concerning the form of the dominant term (as $N\to \infty$) of the $N$-point Riesz $d$-polarization constant for an infinite compact subset $A$ of a $d$-dimensional $C^{1}$-manifold…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-05 S. V. Borodachov , N. Bosuwan

We study the asymptotic behavior of discrete measures on S^{n-1} that are induced by radially projecting point masses concentrated on the integral lattice-points within dilates of a compact body D, for various classes of D. The results…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marina Nechayeva , Burton Randol

We consider two point charges in electrostatic interaction between them within the framework of a nonlinear model, associated with QED, that provides finiteness of their field energy. We argue that if the two charges are equal to each other…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-22 A. I. Breev , A. E. Shabad

Our aim in this work is to give some quantitative insight on the dispersive effects exhibited by solutions of a semiclassical Schr{\"o}dinger-type equation in R d. We describe quantitatively the localisation of the energy in a long-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Victor Chabu , Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer , Fabricio Macià

We investigate the minimal Riesz s-energy problem for positive measures on the d-dimensional unit sphere S^d in the presence of an external field induced by a point charge, and more generally by a line charge. The model interaction is that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 J. S. Brauchart , P. D. Dragnev , E. B. Saff

We study the computation of equilibrium points of electrostatic potentials: locations in space where the electrostatic force arising from a collection of charged particles vanishes. This is a novel scenario of optimization in which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Abheek Ghosh , Paul W. Goldberg , Alexandros Hollender

There are many ways to generate a set of nodes on the sphere for use in a variety of problems in numerical analysis. We present a survey of quickly generated point sets on $\mathbb{S}^2$, examine their equidistribution properties,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-25 D. P. Hardin , T. J. Michaels , E. B. Saff

The aim of this paper is to establish a Ratner-type equidistribution theorem for orbits on homogeneous spaces associated with 2-nilpotent locally compact Polish groups under the action of a countable discrete abelian group. We apply this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Ethan Ackelsberg , Asgar Jamneshan

Let A be a compact set in the right-half plane and $\Gamma(A)$ the set in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ obtained by rotating A about the vertical axis. We investigate the support of the limit distribution of minimal energy point charges on $\Gamma(A)$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Brauchart , D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff

This article determines the asymptotics of the expected Riesz s-energy of the zero set of a Gaussian random systems of polynomials of degree N as the degree N tends to infinity in all dimensions and codimensions. The asymptotics are proved…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-23 Renjie Feng , Steve Zelditch

We study the distribution of point charges in a straight conductive needle and the electric field created by them. Starting from the bead model with $n$ point charges on the needle, we show the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Orion Ciftja , Adrien Guénard , Nefton Pali

We investigate the Riesz energy minimization problem on a $d$-dimensional ball in the presence of an external field created by a point charge above the ball in $\R^{d+1}$, $d\geq1$. Both cases of an attractive charge and a repulsive charge…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Peter D. Dragnev , Ramon Orive , Eduard B. Saff , Franck Wielonsky

The equilibrium measure of a compact plane set gives the steady state distribution of charges on the conductor. We show that certain moments of this equilibrium measure, when taken about the electrostatic centroid and depending only on the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. Baernstein , R. S. Laugesen , I. E. Pritsker

We derive the complete asymptotic expansion in terms of powers of $N$ for the geodesic $f$-energy of $N$ equally spaced points on a rectifiable simple closed curve $\Gamma$ in ${\mathbb R}^p$, $p\geq2$, as $N \to \infty$. For $f$ decreasing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 J. S. Brauchart , D. P. Hardin , E. B. Saff

The Wasserstein distance between probability measures on compact spaces provides a natural invariant quantitative measure of equidistribution, which is partly similar to the classical discrepancy appearing in Erd\"os-Tur\'an type…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Emmanuel Kowalski , Théo Untrau

We consider Riesz-type nonlocal energies with general interaction kernels and their discretizations related to particle systems. We prove that the discretized energies $\Gamma$-converge in the weak-$*$ topology to the Riesz functional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Davide Carazzato , Aldo Pratelli , Ihsan Topaloglu

We are concerned with the dynamics of one fold symmetric patches for the two-dimensional aggregation equation associated to the Newtonian potential. We reformulate a suitable graph model and prove a local well-posedness result in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Taoufik Hmidi , Dong Li

We study the equidistribution of Fekete points in a compact complex manifold. These are extremal point configurations defined through sections of powers of a positive line bundle. Their equidistribution is a known result. The novelty of our…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Nir Lev , Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà